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Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder, and Ben Stiller in Reality Bites (1994)

Ethan Hawke: Troy Dyer

Reality Bites

Ethan Hawke credited as playing...

Troy Dyer

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Quotes21

  • Lelaina Pierce: I was really going to be somebody by the time I was 23.
  • Troy Dyer: Honey, all you have to be by the time you're 23 is yourself.
  • Lelaina Pierce: I don't know who that is anymore.
  • Troy Dyer: I do. And we all love her. I love her. She breaks my heart again and again, but I love her.
  • Troy Dyer: There's no point to any of this. It's all just a... a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know... a Quarter-Pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter become a cackle... and I, I sit back and I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt.
  • Troy Dyer: [On answering machine] At the beep, please leave your name, number, and a brief justification for the ontological necessity of modern man's existential dilemma, and we'll get back to you
  • [assuming the question had no answer at all]
  • Lelaina: Can you define "irony"?
  • Troy Dyer: It's when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning.
  • Michael Grates: Have I stepped over some line in the sands of coolness with you? Because excuse me if somebody doesn't know the secret handshake with you.
  • Troy Dyer: There's no secret handshake. There's an IQ prerequisite, but there's no secret handshake.
  • Troy Dyer: [answering the phone] Hello, you've reached the winter of our discontent.
  • Troy Dyer: I am not under any orders to make the world a better place.
  • Lelaina: I just don't understand why things just can't go back to normal at the end of the half hour like on the Brady Bunch or something.
  • Troy Dyer: Well, 'cause Mr. Brady died of AIDS. Things don't turn out like that.
  • Troy Dyer: You can't navigate me. I may do mean things, and I may hurt you, and I may run away without your permission, and you may hate me forever, and I know that scares the living shit outta you 'cause you know I'm the only real thing you got.
  • Troy Dyer: I've wanted you like this for all these years.
  • Lelaina Pierce: I'd like to somehow make a difference in people's lives.
  • Troy Dyer: And I... I would like to buy them all a Coke.
  • Lelaina Pierce: And you wonder why we never got involved?
  • Troy Dyer: Well fuck me for being nice!
  • Troy Dyer: I'm picking up some very strange vibes. They're of the I-just-got-laid variety.
  • Troy Dyer: He's the reason Cliffs Notes were invented.
  • Vickie: Don't Bogart that can, man...
  • Troy Dyer: Are you retarded?
  • Vickie: No, I'm rhyming. It's not easy. Sure I make it look easy...
  • Troy Dyer: You look like a doily.
  • Troy Dyer: I'm bursting with fruit flavor.
  • Troy Dyer: I was told there'd be no math on this exam.
  • Troy Dyer: Did he dazzle you with his extensive knowledge of mineral water, or was it his in-depth analysis of, uh, uh, Marky Mark that finally reeled you in?
  • Troy Dyer: This girl is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

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